Cherapa Place is six stories tall and full of offices, a bank, and a restaurant.

"I think moving the events center downtown is amazing. It will bring people downtown and I think it's great," Brenda Chamness who works for Howalt-McDowell on the sixth floor of Cherapa Place said.

If the city decides to build the events center in downtown it would be connected to the flat side of the building.

"I think it's exciting. I like seeing all the changes that they have going on in Sioux Falls as a whole. I think this is really exciting for the future possibilities. I think it brings a lot of potential opportunities," Howalt-McDowell employee Rachael Weiland said.

The city is already working on development on the other side of the Cherapa Place building, where the River Greenway project is under construction. It will be a pedestrian-friendly area down on the banks of the Big Sioux, and Cherapa employees think an events center would be a great compliment.

"It brings people downtown. The downtown area is actually expanding tremendously. The riverfront is growing and the improvements that they are making," Chamness said.

And that's why the people who work in the building are excited about all the possibilities Thursday's proposal could bring.

"I like change. I know for some people it can be difficult, but I think this is pretty exciting," Weiland said.

The economic analysis of the downtown site versus the arena and convention center site should be done by mid-April, and that's when we should know more about where the events center will be built.